Asexual Pleasure: Beyond the 5 Senses

Title of Event: Asexual Pleasure: Beyond the 5 Senses

Description of Event:

What is pleasure when it isn’t centered on sex?

This training expands conventional understandings of pleasure by exploring sensory experience beyond the “basic five senses,” offering a framework that is inclusive of Asexuality, Neurodiversity, Disability, and diverse relationships to embodiment.

Participants will explore a broader language of sensory experience, including pathways such as pressure, temperature, movement, and internal body signals, and examine how differences in sensory processing shape access to pleasure. Using a sensory framework that includes variations in sensitivity, registration, and patterns of sensory seeking and avoidance, this training invites a more individualized and embodied approach to understanding satisfaction.

Together, we will build a personalized “Pleasure Menu” that moves away from prescriptive ideas of what people should enjoy and instead centers lived experience, capacity, and context.

This space is designed for Asexual individuals, as well as clinicians, educators, and helping professionals seeking to expand how they understand and support pleasure in their work and lives.

While sexual pleasure may be included, it will not be privileged as the default or primary pathway.

Participants will also be invited to reflect on their own sensory patterns and assumptions about pleasure, creating space for more flexible, affirming, and context-aware approaches.

Non-sexual pleasure is expansive and can be a central focus our lives and relationships. Let's see what that can look like.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Describe at least four sensory pathways beyond the “basic five senses”
2. Apply at least two strategies for building individualized “Pleasure Menus” based on sensory seeking and sensory avoidant patterns

Date of Event: 4/30/26

Time of Event: 12pm-1:30pm Pacific

Location: Online Synchronous

Presenter/Speaker: Aubri Lancaster

Contact Name: Aubri Lancaster

Contact Email: aubrilancaster@gmail.com

Event Website: asexualpleasureapr2026.eventbrite.com

AASECT Approved CEs: 1.5